HOWTO:Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader

go to:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html

select: x86.tar.gz file or the x86.tar.gz2 (there does not appear to be 64 bit versions as at 05-06-2008) save the file to your desktop (+- 47Mg)

To install Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 using a tarball installer

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Change directory (using the  cd command) to the directory that contains the tarball archive.
3. Run one of the following commands.

On Linux: tar -zxvf AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.tar.gz (for gzip installer) tar -jxvf AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.tar.bz2 (for bzip2 installer)

Open a terminal

cd into 'AdobeReader' folder as 
SU in a terminal type: ./INSTALL

this will install acrobatreader into /opt/ for you

Hope this helps - if there is a easier method please update this entry